Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1925)

566 The double axe and Zeus Labrdyndos

rence—at Ankyra1, where an altar burns before him, at Diony-
sopolis, where he appears not only on coins2 but in a small
uninscribed relief3, at Eumeneia (fig. 459)4, Hierapolis5, Stektorion6,
Synaos7, Temenothyrai8, Traianopolis9. The name or names at-
tached to this hero we do not know for certain. But it is probable

Fig. 456. Fig. 457. Fig. 458. Fig. 459.

that at Hierapolis he was called Lairbenos, and at Dionysopolis
Lairmenos or the like. Both towns seem to have identified him
with Apollon. Hierapolis in the second and third centuries A.D.
issued coppers bearing as obverse type a radiate bust, sometimes
without legend10, more often inscribed Lairbenos (fig. 460)11 or

Asklepiaden {Abh. d. berl. Akad. 1846 Phil.-hist. Classe) Berlin 1846 pp. 340, 358 pi. 7,
13, V. C. Cavedoni in the Arch. Zeit. 1847 v. 125, W. Drexler in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii.
1808 f. ('lauft oben in das Strahlenhaupt des Helios aus'), Imhoof-Blumer Kleinas. Miin-
zen i. 239 no. 22 ('dariiber Kopf des Apollon Lairbenos') pi. 7, 30 (=my fig. 457), Brit.
Mus. Cat. Coins Phrygia pp. Ixviii ('surmounted by head of Helios [Lairbenos]'), 245
('surmounted by head of Helios') pi. 31, 7 ( = my fig. 458) Augustus.
1 Brit. Mns. Cat. Coins Phrygia p. 67 no. 49 Otacilia.

- Imhoof-Blumer Kleinas. Miinzen i. 219 no. 4 head of Demos, early in s. iii A.D.,
Head Hist, num." p. 671.

3 Sir W. M. Ramsay in the Journ. Hell. Stud. 1889 x. 219 (at Develar near Dionyso-
polis).

4 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Phrygia pp. lxii, 218 no. 50 f. Domitian, 220 pi. 27, J2 ( = my
fig. 459) Marcus Aurelius, Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 486 pi. 56, 24 Marcus Aurelius, Head Hist.
num.'2 p. 674.

5 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Phrygia pp. 234 pi. 30, 2 obv. head of Zeus Bozios {infra
fig. 465), 238 no. 69 obv. head of Demos, unbearded, 240 nos. 77 and 78 pi. 30, 8 obv.
bust of Boule, veiled, 241 nos. 79 pi. 30, 9 and 80 f. obv. bust of Gerousia, veiled, 247
nos. 114—116 Claudius and 118 Nero, 248 nos. 119 pi. 31, 9 and 120—122 Nero, 251 pi.
32, 1 Marcus Aurelius, Imhoof-Blumer Gr. Miinzen p. 215 no. 698 Augustus, id. Kleinas.
Miinzen i. 239 no. 24 Augustus, 240 no. 27 Nero.

6 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Phrygia p. 386 no. 17 Philippus Senior, Imhoof-Blumer
Kleinas. Miinzen i. 291 no. 3 Philippus Senior.

7 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Phrygia pp. xcvii, 391 no. 21 Philippus Senior.

8 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Phrygia pp. civ, 414 no. 31 Philippus Iunior, 416 pi. 48, 7
Gallienus.

9 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Phrygia pp. cvi, 426 no. 10 f. obv. bust of Demos, unbearded,
429 pi. 50, 9 Gordianus, Imhoof-Blumer Kleinas. Miinzen i. 302 no. 2 Gordianus, no. 3
obv. bust of Demos, unbearded.

10 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Phrygia p. 230 no. 18.

11 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Phrygia p. 236 ff. pi. 30, 6, Imhoof-Blumer Kleinas. Miinzen
i. 236 f. nos. 8 pi. 7, 31 ( = my fig. 460) and 9f., Head Hist, num.2 p. 676.